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The Dell R63T7 Single Port Emulex Lpe31000 16GB FC Host Bus Adapter is a high-performance networking device designed to provide a high-speed data transfer rate for enterprise-level storage area networks (SANs). In this article, we will discuss the Dell R63T7 Single Port Emulex Lpe31000 16GB FC Host Bus Adapter in detail.
Host Bus Adapter
A Host Bus Adapter (HBA) is a hardware device that connects a computer to a storage network. The HBA acts as an interface between the computer and the SAN, allowing data to be transferred between them. The HBA typically includes a microprocessor, memory, and firmware to manage data transfer and protocol conversion.
The Dell R63T7 Single Port Emulex Lpe31000 16GB FC Host Bus Adapter is a high-performance HBA that offers the following features:
- High Data Transfer Rate: The Dell R63T7 Single Port Emulex Lpe31000 16GB FC Host Bus Adapter supports a data transfer rate of up to 16 Gbps, making it suitable for use in high-speed storage area networks.
- Single Port: The HBA comes with a single port, making it ideal for use in small and medium-sized businesses that do not require multiple ports.
- Emulex Lpe31000 Controller: The Dell R63T7 Single Port Emulex Lpe31000 16GB FC Host Bus Adapter is based on the Emulex Lpe31000 controller, which provides high performance, scalability, and reliability.
- PCIe Interface: The HBA uses the PCIe interface, which offers high bandwidth and low latency.
- Compatibility: The Dell R63T7 Single Port Emulex Lpe31000 16GB FC Host Bus Adapter is compatible with various operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and VMware.
Advantages of Single Port Adapter
The Dell R63T7 Single Port Emulex Lpe31000 16GB FC Host Bus Adapter offers the following advantages:
- High Performance: The HBA provides a high-speed data transfer rate, making it ideal for use in high-performance storage area networks.
- Scalability: The Dell R63T7 Single Port Emulex Lpe31000 16GB FC Host Bus Adapter is scalable, allowing businesses to add more storage devices as needed.
- Reliability: The Emulex Lpe31000 controller provides reliable performance, ensuring that businesses can depend on the HBA to transfer data without errors.
- Compatibility: The HBA is compatible with various operating systems, making it easy for businesses to integrate it into their existing IT infrastructure.
- Ease of Use: The Dell R63T7 Single Port Emulex Lpe31000 16GB FC Host Bus Adapter is easy to install and use, with a user-friendly interface that allows businesses to manage their storage networks easily.
In summary, the Dell R63T7 Single Port Emulex Lpe31000 16GB FC Host Bus Adapter is a high-performance HBA that offers a high-speed data transfer rate, scalability, reliability, compatibility, and ease of use. It is ideal for small and medium-sized businesses that require a single-port HBA for their storage area networks.
General Information about the Dell R63T7
- Manufacturer: Dell
- Part Number or SKU# R63T7
- Device Type: Host Bus Adapter
Technical Information os Dell Host Bus Adapter
- Optics: Optics Short Wave Lasers With LC Type Connector Optics
- Host Bus Type: PCI-E Gen3 X8
- I/o Controller: Xe501
- Ports: 1
- Physical Dimensions: Short, Low Profile PCI-E Card, 167.64mm X 68.91mm (6.60 inch X 2.71 inch)
- Cable Support: 100m At 32GB On 50/125 Micrometre Om4 MMF, 20m At 32GB On 50/125 Micrometre Om2 Mmf, 70m At 32GB On 50/125 Micrometre Om3 Mmf, Operating At 32GB.
- Optical Data Rates: 14.025 GBPS (1600MBPS), 8.5 GBPS (800MBPS), 4.25 GBPS (400 MBPS) (auto-detected)
- Hardware Environment: Powerpc, Sparc, Intel X86, X64
- Operating Humidity: 5% To 95% Non-condensing
- Storage Temperature: -20° To 85°c (-4° To 185°f)
- Os Support: Additional Support Is Available From Oems And Partners, Oracle Solaris, Suse® Linux Enterprise Server, Vmware Vsphere.
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About LAUFEN Tile
Laufen quality dates back to 1892 when the Laufen Group founded its first production company in Laufen, Switzerland. The company's reputation for superior craftsmanship grew along with its international presence. Laufen's presence in the U.S. began with the acquisition of International American Ceramics in 1985. Since that time, Laufen has manufactured quality tile designed for the U.S. market. In 1995, Laufen increased its role in the tile market with the acquisition of United States Ceramic Tile Company.
In 1999, the Roca Group, the leading Spanish sanitaryware manufacturer, acquired Laufen. The combined Roca-Laufen group is the second largest sanitaryware manufacturer and the fifth largest ceramic tile manufacturer in the world with ceramic tile factories in the U.S., Spain, Brazil, Peru and Bulgaria. This acquisition has enhanced Laufen's position as a market leader in the U.S. ceramic tile industry with state-of-the-art facilities, a new marketing approach and increased product innovation.
Laufen offers quality floor, wall and decorative tile throughout the U.S. market. With its expansive ceramic tile offering, Laufen continues to bring together its heritage of beautiful styling with its reputation for quality craftsmanship.

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This week we continued our Mending Month projects where Becky and Rachel went mano-a-mano in the "Wash Off". It's been great for all of us to see all the fun comments and sugesstions on how to get those pesky stains out of our shirts. Thank you!
In case you missed any of it, here's a roundup of all the mending posts this week:
- Wash Off 2009: Becky tried to get out stains with baking soda while Rachel works wonders with Oxy Clean.
- Arwen has some stain removal tips.
- Tiffany Threadgould covers up her skirt stain with fabric yo-yos.
- Arwen posts up some extra upholstery tricks from a previous CRAFT 101 on upholstery.
- Becky's Ask CRAFT helps a Laura with her cat scratched couch.
- Cathy Callahan reminisces about those 70's iron-on patches in her Old School column.
Other related mending posts:
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For Thanksgiving Day — Visions of the Wild by Jim Borden
Readers know Jim Borden as a Hall of Fame shooter and the owner of Borden Accuracy/Borden Rifles. Jim won 10 IBS National Championships, set 10 IBS world records, and was inducted into the Benchrest Hall of Fame in 1996. But Jim is not just a great shooter. This highly-trained engineer is very much a Renaissance man. He is as skilled with cameras as he is with benchrest rifles.
Jim is a talented outdoor photographer who has compiled an impressive portfolio of wildlife and landscape photographs. For our Thanksgiving-day edition of the Daily Bulletin we are featuring some of Jim's favorite nature images. We hope readers enjoy them as much as shooters prize Borden's Rimrock benchrest and Rimrock hunting actions.
Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, in a hunting household and hunting community, Jim learned about shooting at a very early age. He started hunting at the age of nine with his father and grandfather. His grandfather had an avid interest in photography while they were on hunts and Jim became interested as well. Jim began using SLR cameras in the 1970s, often carrying cameras on his hunts. As the years passed, Jim became more interested in "shooting" the animals with a camera versus a gun. Jim converted from film to digital in 2006 and in 2007 Jim's wife Joan started accompanying Jim on the photo safaris. Jim has a particular passion for elk, moose, and eagles and Jim also enjoys scenic photography. Jim and Joan both shoot Nikon professional equipment. Their photographs can be viewed at www.BordenPhotography.com. You'll also find Jim's images (along with photography tips) on his JandJB Wildlife Photography Blog.
All in the Family
Jim's grandfather was a gunsmith who taught Jim the trade when Jim was very young. Jim's father and grandfather ran a country business that included an auto repair shop, welding, a small lathe, and a forge. Jim earned a degree in Mechanical engineering at Penn State University. For 23 years he worked for Procter and Gamble (P&G) as an engineer and as an engineering manager/project manager.
Borden Rifles — A Success Story
Borden Accuracy/Borden Rifles has been a source for precision benchrest and hunting rifles for many years. Jim started doing his own gunsmithing while competing in benchrest and high power silhouette matches. Jim launched his business in 1987, working nights and weekends while still employed at P&G. The business became full-time in 1995 with Jim and his wife Joan doing the work. The business was expanded in 1999 with the construction of the new Springville, PA facility and the addition of sons Jim Jr. and John to the staff. Son-in-law John Mecca came onboard in January 2000. Now the Borden shop continues to make some of the finest rifles and actions in the world. Joan tells us that the company has seen a significant growth in ultra-high-quality precision hunting rifles in recent years.Jim and company began making Rimrock benchrest and Rimrock hunting actions in 2001. They added Borden Alpine and Timberline actions in 2006. These actions are made in an advanced manufacturing facility which has three CNC vertical Machining centers, three CNC lathes, three manual lathes, a manual knee mill, a surface grinder, a cylindrical grinder and wire EDM machine. To learn more, visit BordenRifles.com, call 570-965-2505, or send email to info [at] bordenrifles.com.


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- The killer was, perhaps not surprisingly, a juicer. His 1500-page secret document has details of his various steroid cycles. Whether he came up with the idea of killing a bunch of children after he started on steroids, or whether he deliberately chose to use steroids to keep up his will power against attacks of angst, I can't say.
When initiating the "chemical [fertilizer for his bomb] acquirement phase", in end November/early December, I must admit I was filled with some angst. This was after all a critical phase, perhaps the most dangerous of all phases. If I messed this phase up, by being flagged, reported to the authorities etc. I would be neutralized before I could finalize my operation. Even when taking all possible precautions; I estimate it is a 30% chance of being reported to the system protectors at the national intelligence agency during this phase.
My concerns and angst relating to this phase impacted my motivation, to a point where I had to initiate specific counter-measures to reverse the loss of morale and motivation. I decided that the correct approach to reversing it was to initiate another DBOL steroid cycle and intensify my strength training. I also spent some time locating and downloading some new inspirational music. A lot of new vocal trance tracks and some inspirational music by Helene Bøksle. In addition; I decided I would allow myself to play the newly launched expansion: World of Warcraft – Cataclysm. The combination of these three counter measures, in addition to my 3 weekly indoctrination/meditation walks, resulted in my morale and motivation again peaking.
Or maybe the common link between his steroid use and his terrible crime is vanity.
'Norway attack suspect had anti-Muslim, pro-Israel views'By BEN HARTMAN
07/24/2011 18:37
1,500 page manifesto credited to Breivik, accused of killing spree, lays out worldview including extreme screed of Islamophobia, far-right Zionism.
Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who killed nearly 100 people in a combined terror attack Friday that included car bombings in Oslo and a shooting rampage at an island summer camp, held fiercely anti-Islamic and pro-Israel views, according to a 1,500 page manifesto he uploaded before his killing spree Friday.
In the 1,500-page tome, which mentions Israel 359 times and "Jews" 324 times, Breivik lays out his worldview, which includes an extreme, bizarre and rambling screed of Islamophobia, far-right Zionism and venomous attacks on Marxism and multi-culturalism.
- Neither this guy nor Fortuyn's killer seemed terribly crazy, just evil.
- I was reading up awhile ago on Norway's summer camp-style prisons and maximum 21-year sentences for murder. Hopefully, Norway's also got a non-summer camp to send this guy to on, say, the north coast of Spitzbergen, and that the 21-year max is per murder, not overall.


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From mobile phones compradetodo.com (buyeverything.com)
Call as soon as possible to 07 2043145
For recharge of minutes balance via Internet,
If you do not call back today the charge will be returned
to the purchaser.
In case of fraud, the line will be cancelled."
As soon as I saw this same message twice, I called the number in question and the voice of the woman who took care of me repeated that I had received a recharge. I asked for how much, as I was not expecting one, and she did not want to say.
Thereupon she asked my name, the number of my identification card, my cell phone number and the address of my house. I gave her all these facts believing that they were necessary and she immediately asked me the name of the person who was doing the recharge. I asked her if this was an interrogation, to which, a bit irritated, she responded that she had only asked three questions. Since she insisted on the name of the possible benefactor, I answered that it could be one of my two sons or my aunt. Then she told me: "say a man's name". I mentioned those of my sons and she said: "Those are not it… (This reply means that she knows the name)… when you know the name, call us. In the meantime, your recharge will be here. Have no fear". The message in question has been repeated, as of now, five times.
This whole conversation, as well as its very tone, at first appeared to me to be in jest and immediately thereafter, a lack of respect and even a violation of the client's right to privacy.
I state this so that anyone who might generously recharge my telephone, be they family or friend, may know just how tightly our telephony is controlled. This appears to be a new "Service to the client" of the Cubacel Enterprise.
Translated by: Maria Montoto
June 28 2012
Site manager's note: If you recharge the bloggers' cellphones (a WONDERFUL thing to do) it's a good idea to send them an email with whatever name you used when you recharged it and the amount… otherwise it may not always be credited to them. If there's no email on their Spanish blogs … email us (translatingcuba … at… gmail…) and we'll try to get in touch with them. I will also put this information and the emails we have for the bloggers on the "How to Recharge Bloggers' Phones" page.


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WESTMINSTER . (AP) — Married teachers in Orange County were sentenced Thursday to probation for having a months-long sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male student, individually and as a couple.
Gay Davidson-Shepard and her husband, Daniel Alma Shepard, also received suspended jail sentences and must undergo counseling and complete community service, according to the Orange County district attorney's office.
The couple's attorney, Salvatore Ciulla, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Prosecutors said the Huntington Beach couple began grooming the teen in 2009 when he was a student at Westminster High School by inviting him over for meals, drinking, movies and board games. The first sexual encounter was a month later after they urged him to get into their hot tub with them, authorities said.
The sexual activity allegedly continued on a weekly basis for months, but prosecutors said they could not charge the couple with any crimes for sex that happened after the teen turned 18.
The boy told his mother about the abuse in 2011 and she went to police, prosecutors said.
Davidson-Shepard and Shepard both pleaded guilty to multiple sex-related counts in a court offer in August.
After initially posting bail, Gay Davidson-Shepard was rearrested in November 2011 on suspicion of violating a protective order when she called and texted the teenager multiple times after she was released in the original case on bail, prosecutors said.
Gay Davidson-Shepard was a teacher at Mesa View Middle School in Huntington Beach, and Daniel Shepard was a teacher at Westminster High School in Westminster.


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Demented screams echo around the dank asylum that has caged you for the last six years. You open your eyes. A white-coated body slumps to the floor through your shaking hands. A bloody syringe slips from your arm. Waves of confusion and paranoia crash over you. You have no idea who you are or how you got here.
"With Manhunt 2 we have tried to create a game that stays close to the original concept of chilling suspense and stealth, whilst pushing the game design and storytelling forward," said Sam Houser, founder and executive producer of Rockstar Games. "We are also excited to have our newest development team, Rockstar London, working on the title alongside our two established UK studios, Rockstar North and Leeds."
The door to your cell is open. One choice. One chance. They took your life. Time to take it back.
Manhunt 2, Rockstar London's debut title, is coming Summer 2007
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Benefits of Green Buildings on Costs, the Environment and Jobs
Good afternoon, Madam Chair, Ranking Member Diaz-Balart and members of this Subcommittee. My name is Kevin Kampschroer; I am the Acting Director of the Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings in the US General Services Administration (GSA). Thank you for inviting me today to discuss the benefits of green buildings on costs, the environment and jobs.
GSA, through its Public Buildings Service (PBS), is one of the largest and most diversified public real estate organizations in the world. Our inventory consists of more than 8,600 owned and leased assets with nearly 354 million square feet of rentable space across all 50 states, 6 territories and the District of Columbia. Our portfolio is composed primarily of office buildings and courthouses, land ports of entry, and warehouses. GSA's goal is to manage these assets responsibly while delivering and maintaining superior workplaces at best value to our client agencies and the American taxpayer. And we collaborate with other Federal agencies not only as our clients, but also as partners in developing, implementing and evaluating federal green building programs, for example, through such programs as ENERGY STAR, which is jointly run by the US Environmental Protection Agency and US Department of Energy.
Cost and Value
High-performing green buildings provide the best value for the taxpayer and for the public through both life cycle cost benefits and positive effects on human health and performance. A recent study of GSA's 12 earliest green federal buildings shows energy use is down 26% and occupant satisfaction up 27%, compared to commercial office benchmark data. More importantly, the top third of studied buildings, which use an integrated design approach, deliver significantly better results with 45% less energy consumption, 53% lower maintenance costs, and 39% less water use.
A recent report by CoStar, a major real estate transaction information collection company, shows that green buildings, in general, also have lower vacancy rates. According to the 2008 McGraw-Hill Construction SmartMarket Report: Key Trends in the European and U.S. Construction Marketplace, operating costs for green buildings are on average 8 to 9% lower, building values are 7.5% higher, buildings have a 3.5% greater occupancy ratio, and green buildings provide a 6.6% total return on investment.
With the above mentioned long-term operating cost benefits, the life cycle cost of green buildings is lower than the life cycle costs of those that are not. Even the initial capital costs are not necessarily higher, and when they are, only marginally so. A 2007 study by Davis Langdon shows that green building aspects tend to have a lesser impact on costs than other building decisions, such as which kind of finishes and amenities the building might provide.
Environmental Benefits
Sustainable design is not just about cost. Good sustainable design offers economic, environmental and societal benefits. A planted or "green" roof, for example, can have significant economic benefits, by lowering the roof temperature and thereby reducing the amount of cooling tonnage needed, and even lowering costs for neighboring buildings. A planted roof can reduce the environmental impact of a building, by reducing pollution from the building's power usage, as well as reducing the city's heat island effect. Another environmental benefit of planted roofs is reduced storm water runoff. In cities like Washington DC, which has a combined storm water and sewer system, this reduces water pollution, both locally and downstream in Chesapeake Bay. Finally, societal benefits include physically and aesthetically pleasing effects for building occupants and neighbors, and jobs for workers to install and maintain planted roofs.
The careful use of materials can reduce energy consumption during the manufacturing process and protect the health of occupants. Careful construction techniques can reduce the amount of construction waste that reaches landfills by 95% or more. Re-use of existing structures can reduce resource consumption while preserving our country's heritage. Careful siting can make buildings perform better from both environmental and human perspectives: proximity to transportation reduces pollution and improves occupants' quality of life. The key is holistic, integrated consideration of all the factors that influence building, including consideration of the decision of whether to build at all.
There has been a lot of focus on sustainable design. For example, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires buildings to be designed to be 30 percent better than the current energy code. Design is important; without it we cannot achieve the country's energy goals. We need, however, to have at least as much emphasis on actual building performance. California is contemplating standard building performance labeling as a prerequisite for every real estate transaction, and beginning in 2010 GSA will require new building leases over 10,000 square feet to have an Energy Star rating, earned in the most recent year of operation. The value of and Energy Star rating is that is an on-going performance measure.
We also need to expand our measures. Today we typically concentrate on energy use in the building. Buildings exist in context, though; they are parts of neighborhoods, communities and cities. They are also tools for businesses and organizations. One of the key policy changes of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 was to clearly articulate that a high-performance green building must not just perform well mechanically, but must perform to improve the health and enhance the performance of the occupants.
A key broad measure of environmental impact is greenhouse gas, or GHG, emissions. Once you measure the collective effects of greenhouse gas production by an organization--with buildings as components--you can make more informed decisions and trade-offs. We need to look at the way we buy materials for the building, travel to and from the building, the way we use the building, and how the building is operating. When we look at both what the building is doing, and what is happening inside the building, we can make even better improvements than looking at the building alone. We have found, for example, that when we involve the tenants in building retrofit projects, we discover changes in their operations that can increase energy savings by as much as 50%, and also lower the tenants' cost of operations. In some cases this can actually lower the cost of renovation as well.
The Federal Government can, through its example, influence and accelerate the adoption of sustainable building practices across the country. And we can help do that through publicizing the quantitative results. GSA received $4.5 billion to modernize existing Federal buildings and begin converting GSA assets to High Performance Green Buildings as defined by EISA. The increased transparency of Recovery Act transactions, and reporting on results, are key to that influence.
Creation of Green Jobs
The jobs created across the design, engineering, manufacturing, construction and operations industries will bolster the "green economy." These jobs will provide practical experience in high-performance technologies, green construction and building operations.
GSA has identified over 50 different trades and professions that will participate in the accomplishment of GSA building projects. While it may seem that some aspects of construction are unaffected by new technologies, we find that virtually all are changed in some way by the application of the principles of sustainable buildings and delivery. For example, in demolition work, we take particular care to ensure that materials are reused, and recycled, and we have avoided 95% of the traditional construction waste on several of our projects. Even such work as sheet metal work — installing air ducts in buildings — is affected, because we are requiring better work quality to reduce energy losses through leaks.
Several areas are dramatically changed. Our use of integrated photovoltaic solar power systems (PV) increases manufacturing of this technology and reduces reliance on fossil fuels. Installation of PV requires special skills that are a part of the green economy. Lighting systems and controls have improved dramatically over the past 10 years. We will be replacing old lighting systems with new ones, which are based on a much better understanding of the needs of people in modern working conditions, capture more daylight, and provide better working conditions, but use less energy. Ten years ago, we might have installed a lighting system that used 1.5 or 2 watts per square foot, but today it should be less than half that amount. We are using light-emitting diodes for lighting in certain locations; this is also an emerging technology. We are accelerating its adoption with the Recovery Act funding. Finally, building controls and advanced or "smart" meters are a key component of every project we are undertaking, consistent with EPACT 05. Smart meters provide far more sophisticated data. By using these data, connecting smart meters with building automation systems and creating operating models for the building, the resulting control system and procedures not only reduce energy through the use of smart meter data, but also provide us the means to track usage and make sure that energy savings persist.
GSA's use of Recovery Act funds to implement emerging technologies leads to the creation of green jobs in building operations. GSA has discovered that most building operators in the government and private sector complain that they are unable to find enough well-trained people to run high-performance buildings and keep them running in a high-performance mode. Buildings that are tuned up, commissioned and operating well can easily slip into poorer performance without proper maintenance. The aggregate result is a significant degradation of performance and an unnecessary increase in energy consumption. GSA is already in conversations with the Building Owners and Managers Association, with the International Facility Managers Association and others about the apparent shortage of sufficiently-trained building operators. We believe that GSA's Recovery Act projects can potentially provide jobs along this emerging career pathway.
The funds Congress has provided us through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are a sound investment in several respects. First, the timely obligation of these recovery funds will stimulate job growth in the green construction and real estate sectors. Second, the money will help us reduce energy consumption and improve the environmental performance of our inventory. Third, the funds, in large part, will be invested in the existing infrastructure, which will help reduce our backlog of repair and alteration needs, thus increasing the assets' value, prolonging their useful life, and ultimately further conserving our country's resources. Finally, these funds will be invested in government-owned assets for the long-term requirements of our federal customers.
Thank you again for this opportunity. All of us at GSA are excited by the contribution you have allowed us to make, and I am available to address any questions you may have.


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By HAMZA HENDAWI
Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) _ The head of Egypt's military, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, sat with a polite smile in the front row listening to President Mohammed Morsi give a 2 1/2-hour speech defending his year in office. El-Sissi even clapped lightly as the audience of Morsi supporters broke into cheers.
It was a calculating display of cool by an army general plotting the overthrow of his commander in chief. Just over a week later, el-Sissi slid in the knife, announcing Morsi's ouster on state TV on July 3 as troops took the Islamist leader into custody.
The move was the culmination of nearly a year of acrimonious relations between el-Sissi and Egypt's first freely elected _ and first civilian _ president.
A series of interviews by The Associated Press with defense, security and intelligence officials paint a picture of a president who intended to flex his civilian authority as supreme commander of the armed forces, issuing orders to el-Sissi. In turn, the military chief believed Morsi was leading the country into turmoil and repeatedly challenged him, defying his orders in at least two cases.
The degree of their differences suggests that the military had been planning for months to take greater control of the political reins in Egypt. When an activist group named Tamarod began a campaign to oust Morsi, building up to protests by millions nationwide that began June 30, it appears to have provided a golden opportunity for el-Sissi to get rid of the president. The military helped Tamarod from early on, communicating with it through third parties, according to the officials.
The reason, the officials said, was because of profound policy differences with Morsi. El-Sissi saw him as dangerously mismanaging a wave of protests early in the year that saw dozens killed by security forces. More significantly, however, the military also worried that Morsi was giving a free hand to Islamic militants in the Sinai Peninsula, ordering el-Sissi to stop crackdowns on jihadis who had killed Egyptian soldiers and were escalating a campaign of violence.
"I don't want Muslims to shed the blood of fellow Muslims," Morsi told el-Sissi in ordering a halt to a planned offensive in November, retired army Gen. Sameh Seif el-Yazl told AP. Seif el-Yazl remains close to the military and sometimes appears with el-Sissi at public events.
And at root, the military establishment has historically had little tolerance for the Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi's Islamist group. The military leadership has long held the conviction that the group puts its regional Islamist ambitions above Egypt's security interests.
Its alliances with Gaza's Hamas rulers and other Islamist groups alarmed the military, which believed Gaza militants were involved in Sinai violence. The officials said the military leadership also believed the Brotherhood was trying to co-opt commanders to turn against el-Sissi.
The military has been the most powerful institution in Egypt since officers staged a 1952 coup that toppled the monarchy. Except for Morsi, the military has since given Egypt all of its presidents and maintained a powerful influence over policy. Having a civilian leader over the military was entirely new for the country.
The Brotherhood accuses el-Sissi of turning against them and carrying out a coup to wreck democracy. Since being deposed, Morsi is detained by the military at an undisclosed Defense Ministry facility.
The Brotherhood had believed that el-Sissi was sympathetic with their Islamist agenda. A senior Brotherhood official told AP that Morsi installed el-Sissi, then the head of military intelligence, as defense minister and head of the armed forces in August 2012 in part because he had been the contact man between the Brotherhood and the military junta that ruled Egypt for nearly 17 months after the February 2011 fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
El-Sissi spoke of his differences with Morsi for the first time Sunday when he addressed military officers in a meeting that was partially televised.
"I don't want to count to you the number of times that the armed forces showed its reservations on many actions and measures that came as a surprise," el-Sissi said.
Along with the Brotherhood official, eight current senior officials in the military, military intelligence and Interior Ministry _ including a top army commander and an officer from el-Sissi's inner circle _ spoke to AP on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the events between Morsi and the military.
They recounted tense conversations and meetings with a frustrated Morsi frequently reminding the military chief of his rank as supreme commander.
As early as April, the army drew up a contingency plan to assert control of the nation by taking charge of security if street violence escalated out of Morsi's control, the intelligence and defense officials said.
The plan did not entail removing Morsi. Instead, it was an expansion of the role the army took in the Suez Canal city of Port Said, which by that time had seen months of anti-Morsi protests that evolved into an outright revolt. More than 40 protesters had been killed by police there, as Morsi publicly urged security forces to deal strongly with the protests. The military was deployed in the city, largely welcomed by the residents, who continued protests and strikes.
The military officials said Morsi had ordered the army to get tougher on protesters, but el-Sissi refused, telling him, "The people have demands."
About this time, in April and May, el-Sissi's officials met with commanders of the Republican Guard, the army branch that protects the president. The commanders told them that Morsi's aides were trying to co-opt Guard officers and senior army officers in a move to replace el-Sissi, according to the official in the military chief's staff.
Each side's suspicions were fueled by leaks in the press with anonymous Brotherhood and military officials quoted as criticizing the other. In meetings, Morsi assured el-Sissi that he had no intention of firing him, saying, "These are just rumors," the defense officials said. El-Sissi told Morsi that the military leaks were merely "newspaper talk."
In April, the youth activists of Tamarod, Arabic for "Rebel," began collecting signatures on a petition for Morsi to step down. When it said it had 2 million signatures in mid-May, the military took an interest and worked through third parties that connected the group with liberal and opposition-linked businessmen who would bank it, said two high-ranking Interior Ministry officials.
The campaign claimed in June to have more than 20 million signatures _ though the number has never been independently confirmed _ and called for mass rallies against Morsi to start June 30, the anniversary of his inauguration. El-Sissi issued a statement saying the armed forces would intervene to stop any violence at the protests, particularly to stop Morsi supporters from attacking the rallies. He gave the two sides a week to resolve their differences _ with the deadline being June 30.
The protection plan appeared to be an evolution of the original contingency plan set up in April, and it was widely seen as a show of support for the protesters.
Morsi summoned el-Sissi to explain his statement, and the general reassured him that "this was designed to calm people down," the Brotherhood official said.
"He did not show his true intentions until July 1 when he gave the president a 48-hour ultimatum," said the official, referring to a second ultimatum from el-Sissi that explicitly demanded Morsi find a solution with his opponents or the military would intervene.
Soon after the first deadline was issued, two Morsi aides called the commander of the 2nd Field Army, Maj. Gen. Ahmed Wasfi, based in the Suez Canal region, and sounded him out about installing him in el-Sissi's place, the military officials said. Wasfi immediately informed el-Sissi of the call, they said.
Seif el-Yazl and the military and intelligence officials said security in the strategic Sinai Peninsula bordering Gaza and Israel was at the heart of the differences. The region plunged into lawlessness after Mubarak's ouster, with Islamic militants gaining increasing power. Soon after Morsi took office, militants killed 16 Egyptian soldiers in a single attack and smaller-scale shootings on security forces mounted. In May, six policemen and a soldier were kidnapped.
Morsi in each case vowed action, but he and his aides also spoke publicly on the need for restraint and dialogue. At one point, he publicly acknowledged holding the military back from a raid to prevent civilian casualties, and he also spoke of the need not to harm the kidnappers as well as the captives. Morsi's ultraconservative Salafi allies mediated with militant groups to get them to halt violence, although attacks continued.
In November, Morsi ordered el-Sissi to halt a planned Sinai offensive a day before it was to be launched, and el-Sissi complied, Self el-Yazl said. In May, the kidnappers released their captives after a week, apparently after mediation. Morsi vowed publicly to track them down, but the military officials said the president ordered el-Sissi to pull his forces out of the area where they were believed to be. Again, the military complied. The kidnappers have not been caught.
The security and intelligence officials said they reported to Morsi about a rising number of foreign jihadis, including Palestinians, entering Sinai. The military identified Gazan militants involved in the killing of the 16 soldiers, but Morsi rejected a request by el-Sissi that he ask Hamas to hand them over for trial, the officials said. Hamas has repeatedly denied any role in the killings.
Morsi instead ordered el-Sissi to meet with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal to discuss the issue. El-Sissi refused, because of the military's longtime view of Hamas as a threat, said the officials.
The military saw the policy of dialogue as being rooted in the Brotherhood's sympathy to others in the Islamist movement, even ones engaged in violence. Another incident deepened the military's belief that Morsi was more interested in a regional Islamist agenda than what the army saw as Egypt's interests.
During an April visit to Sudan, which has an Islamist government, Morsi showed flexibility over the fate of a border region claimed by both countries. After Morsi's return, el-Sissi sent his chief of staff to Khartoum to "make it crystal clear to the Sudanese that the Egyptian armed forces will never surrender" the territory, one defense official said.


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Level Indicators & Flow Measurement 117
July 6, 2007
Level Transmitter
The LaserTrak 80 laser transmitter measures position over long ranges, at distances up to 500 ft. The device also accurately measures level at distances up to 100 ft. Whether handling plastics, grain, or aggregates, the instrument can measure any surface at any angle. The small wavelength of the laser results in a narrower beam with virtually no beam divergence and, therefore, no false echoes. The all-digital design provides speed and accuracy in a compact unit. An advanced timing system and self-correcting signal-processing functions allow the device to make accurate measurements in the harshest conditions.
ASI Instruments, Houston, TX 713-461-4535 www.asiinstruments.com
Rotary Level Indicator
The paddle-style BMRX rotary bin level indicator includes state-of-the-art refinements that make it more secure and reliable, as well as easier to maintain. The indicator comes with a four-bearing driveshaft assembly that reduces motor drag and includes easy access to the electronics through a triple-threaded screw-off cover and removable wire terminals for easy wiring, plus an easy-access dual-conduit entrance. New fail-safe protection eliminates process accidents. The unit can be used to prevent bin overflows, empty conditions, clogged chutes, and jammed conveyors that cost time and money. It comes in a variety of styles for different applications, with various couplings, paddles, and extensions to accommodate any dry bulk material storage or flow need. It can be used in materials with bulk density as low as 2 lb/cu ft.
BinMaster, Lincoln, NE 402-434-9102 www.binmaster.com
Two-Wire Radar for Solids
The PULS 68 two-wire radar instrument for measuring solids removes obstacles from changing process levels and environmental conditions by combining the advantages of radar technology with the special requirements of bulk solids measurement. Designed specifically to measure solid materials, the instrument uses a frequency of 26 GHz to achieve a strong return signal from solid materials. With a 1000× magnification of returned signals to the sensor as compared with typical radar sensors, the two-wire radar is able to see and evaluate echoes in low dielectric conditions and over a range of up to 230 ft. The precision-designed horn ensures low antenna noise and high sensitivity for optimal focusing, while the distinctive parabolic antenna emits a consistent signal without interfering effects, making it insensitive to contamination and damage through a recessed feed system.
Ohmart/VEGA Corp., Cincinnati, OH 513-272-0524 www.ohmartvega.com
Microwave Pulse Switch
The Microwave Pulse Switch is a comprehensive sender-receiver remote or integral system that enables point-level switching for presence or absence of most solid materials. Compliant with OSHA and FCC regulations, this rugged device is an environmentally and personally safe alternative to nucleonic switches. Offering low-cost installation and cabling as well as switch-fail relay, the switch is water- and dust-tight, has chemically resistant NEMA 4X enclosures, and requires no site licensing. It is well suited for applications in which microwave energy is absorbed by the monitored material, including replacement of traditional contact switching devices used in mining, sand and gravel quarries, cement plants, pulp paper, plastic, rubber, coal-fired power plants, steel mills, aluminum smelters, food, pharmaceuticals, and other manufacturing fields.
Hawk Measurement America, Middleton, MA 888-429-5538 www.hawkmeasure.com
Point-Level Indicator
The Roto-Safe provides material point-level indication in bins, silos, hoppers, and other vessels where failsafe detection is required, including dust hazard areas. The Class 2 Division 1–approved unit incorporates two detection circuits: one indicating when material has impeded the paddle, the second indicating when the paddle stops turning. This makes it a failsafe solution for high-level or plug-condition monitoring. Features include user-adjustable sensitivity, LED warning indicators, an adjustable timer, vertical extensions (up to 12 ft long), corrosion-resistant glass-fiber-reinforced nylon housing, and universal power supply of 120/240 V ac/24 V dc.
4B Components, East Peoria, IL 309-698-5611 www.go4b.com
Self-Validating Bin Level Indicator
The SafePoint self-validating bin level indicator monitors the presence or absence of material as well as the indicator's own health status and ability to perform its function. The patented application of Hall-effect sensors and microcontroller technology help prevent costly overfilling and material outages. The instrument features outputs to indicate both presence/absence and sensor health. By monitoring both, customers can avoid the cost of having too much or too little material in their bins.
Monitor Technologies LLC, Elburn, IL 800-601-6302 www.monitortech.com
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Several months ago an unfamiliar indie game company of one man has released it's first retro subliminal space shooter MINDGUNNER.
But the news were never published on the GNU/Linux gaming websites, so I am writing about it here…
The Children of NYX is a one man Indie game company Steve started to try and help feed his family after being fired and couldn't find another job.
All the games Steve makes are adware, spyware, and DRM free and off course have a native GNU/Linux client.
MINDGUNNER is retro arcade insanity at its finest. Crafted of dreams, memories, and electrons from the by gone days of dimly lit arcades.
With 20 levels of wave after wave of baddies flooding the screen the simplicity of the controls and gameplay will frustrate while the shifting backgrounds and colors can mess with more than just your eyes.
There are also a subliminal versions of this game which try to make the player happy by sending subliminal text messages to the players mind, you can also request a customized version of the messages (like stop smoking, lose weight, get a life… 😉 ).
- GLSL Hardware Accelerated Graphics
- Retro design and stylings
- 20 levels
- key layouts for left or right handed control & Joystick Support
- Windows and Linux support
- Enough baddies to make you beg for mercy
- Now when you buy the game you'll get both Windows and Linux versions in one download
MINDGUNNER Creator Notes:
The subliminal messaging used in the subliminal versions of the game is a basic visual type. It has been done in such a way that you should not notice it during game play as this is the desired effect.
This game started out with a very singular ambition behind it and has blossomed into what it is today. Originally I wanted to build a game to help my (step)daughters (9 and 10 years old) communicate with us(the parents) and each other better. Now your possibly asking how a shooting game could help my kids communicate better. Well after feeling completely helpless when it came to helping my daughters deal with their anger issues (stemming from my wifes first marriage) I remembered a PC game I had played many years before that used subliminal messages to help the player feel better. My experience with the game had always stuck in my mind as amazing. A friend and I had played the game for about 2 hour one day. In the middle of playing the game we both had started to laugh. After we had stopped playing it took the laughter around 15 minutes to subside, and even longer for the smiles to fade. The game had helped us to feel truly happy. So after remembering this experience I thought, "well why not make a game using the same principles of subliminal messaging to help my daughters", and so I began to work.
Shortly there after in July of '08 I lost my job as a network admin for a wireless internet service, and not even a month later discovered my wife was pregnant with our first child together. Needless to say the "Oh Crap!!!" factor had kicked in, and chaos ensued. I worked on the game intermittently during the following months. An hour here, two hours there. It officially was sent to the back burner. I worked where and when I could doing odd jobs. After sending out over 1500 resumes, and only receiving a handful of responses (all rejections) I was on the verge of a breakdown. My son would be here in only a months time and I had no job prospects. So with nothing else to lose I started work on the game again, but this time with the intension to try and sell it. That was in April of '09. Now 4 months later I have a 3 month old baby boy, and a finished game.
I truly hope people enjoy what I have created here. It has been a labor of love to help my daughters, and now also to bring a little piece of retro-arcade to life.
Steve G.
The Children of NYX "are" also working on a new game called Municipal :
Vid quality stinks but it's the best I could get from my linux rig. This is the work in progress of a game I've been working on called Municipal Level III. Completed version will have 30 levels with the ability to play any of the levels in any order. This game is my tongue in cheek stab at corporate game companies. The final version will have zombies, mutant cockroaches, midgets on stilts that shoot missles from their butts.
(yes, you read that right missles from their butts)
And many more irreverent baddies.
This vid gives a pretty basic look around of the play area, as well as some of the hover car physics and capabilities.
Thanks Grzegorz Budny aka mateo for those wonderful news
The Children of NYX
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A menu can be created in much the same way as any of the CAPI classes you have already met.
(make-instance 'menu
:title "Foo"
:items '("One" "Two" "Three" "Four")
:callback 'test-callback)
(make-instance 'interface
:menu-bar-items (list *))
(display *)
This creates a CAPI interface with a menu,
, which contains four items. Choosing any of these items displays its arguments. Each item has the callback specified by the
A submenu can be created simply by specifying a menu as one of the items of the top-level menu.
(make-instance 'menu
:title "Bar"
:items '("One" "Two" "Three" "Four")
:callback 'test-callback)
(make-instance 'menu
:title "Baz"
:items (list 1 2 * 4 5)
:callback 'test-callback)
(contain *)
This creates an interface which has a menu, called Baz , which itself contains five items. The third item is another menu, Bar , which contains four items. Once again, selecting any item returns its arguments.
Menus can be nested as deeply as required using this method.


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Underwater Frogs and New Johnson Creek Restoration Report
Environmental Services recently completed this report, which documents the results of effectiveness monitoring for restoration projects constructed in the Johnson Creek watershed between 1997 and 2010. Projects like the Schweitzer Natural Area and East Lents Floodplain project (which we've written about recently here) are monitored to comply with permits and grants, and to make sure the projects are working as designed. The six projects in this report comprise over 122 acre feet of added flood storage in this part of southeast Portland, and almost 100,000 trees and shrubs planted.
Besides helping to address nuisance flooding and improve water quality in Johnson Creek, these projects are providing habitat for native wildlife in the city...like this Red-legged frog that staff recently captured with an underwater camera at the Schweitzer Natural Area.
Northern Red-legged frogs are a special-status species in Oregon, meaning they have been identified by federal or state agencies as a species of concern due to declining populations. Healthy amphibian populations, like those at several Johnson Creek project sites, are an indicator of good water quality and suitable habitat.


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Chuan Leekpai
Thai political leader
Born: 7/28/1938
Birthplace: Muang District, Trang Province, Thailand
Trained as an attorney, Chuan has been active in Thai politics since 1969, rising to lead the Democrat party. He is derided by critics as overly willing to compromise, though supporters point to his success in forming coalition governments. He first ruled as prime minister from September 1992–July 1995, the longest reign of any popularly elected official in Thailand's history. The November 1997 elections returned Chuan to power as he formed another coalition government with representatives from eight different parties. Chuan's priorities remain with the working class, from which he comes. Despite cutbacks in government spending necessitated by the economic crisis that began in July 1997 with the massive devaluation of the bhat, the average Thai had confidence that Chuan would look out for them and had their interests at heart. The economy improved over the next several years. In 2001 Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak Thai ("Thais Love Thais") party won the election and Shinawatra took over as prime minister. Chuan Leepkai stepped down as head of the Democratic Party in 2003.


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"The Librarians will never take back Egypt."
"Librarians are hiding something."
Librarians hoard the wisdom of humanity. They are the keepers of all knowledge, the guardians at the temples of understanding, and devoted protectors of the sanctuary in the midst of uneducated anarchy. Plus, they are often aware of very cheap places to dine alone with books. Let us not mince words: librarians are hiding something™. A group of Librarians is also known as a stack.
The Common Vengeful Librarian, or Genus Insanus Derangus, is intent on spreading autocracy beyond the confines of the library and imposing silence and bans on soft drink on wider society. Invariably middle-aged and smelling of old cheese, they take pleasure in promoting propaganda by installing posters bearing truisms such as "The Library – Quiet Fun for Everyone", "Books – More Than Just Paper", and "IQ Tests – Proof We're Better Than You" around the premises. Subsisting on a diet of coffee and tic-tacs (whose rattle, morbidly inevitable in the deathly silence of the library, shatters the nerves) which occasions chronic indigestion, and as such, any request to a librarian of this breed is met with annoyance and a superior sniff of disgust (they may also be set off by sentence fragments). Almost all librarians are in the age range from 60 to 85. 100% of librarians are women who are elders. (Sometimes you can tell that a librarian has advanced in age. Those types of librarians are "Why hasn't this librarian retired yet? She should have retired 40 years ago." type.) Ladies who are librarians have gray hair or White (colour) if a librarian has suffered hair loss, wigs are worn that are not visible to the public eye. The hair is tied up into a circular bun. (Which is what 98% of librarians have their hair done as for their appearance.) Also can be seen wearing ultra-thick glasses that are quite noticeable. All librarians wear formal attire in the library: very thick glasses that are noticeable on their wrinkly faces, a white colour (color) blouse with crotchet around the top part of the neckpiece and buttoned sleeves at the wrist, a polyester dress that touches the floor but exposes high-heels with lace-up boots, a corset to maintain figure with posture, and an optional hat. The pointy nose and chin are similar to your grandmother's and just as strict.
In modern times, some librarians reveal partial skin, if not they have not received skin failure once in their lifetime. All experienced expert librarians, whom are the elders, don't show any skin ever!
Super powers[edit]
Most librarians' super powers are relegated to mind reading, reference, and collection development. Some Librarians have heightened awareness for cataloging and categorization. Most enjoy fining patrons for late and/or damaged materials. They have the ability to run fast and catch you if you cases or you steal a book. But the experienced ones walk in slow-motion to fool the patrons. Librarians are smart so don't underestimate them.
Additionally, librarians can identify enemies of the system – thieves, small children, politicians, tax payers, homeless people, teenagers, Icelandic hippies, and various political figures – by smell, and instantly vanquish all with a "shhh".
Another super power is the ability to search for stuff without using Google or any other too obvious tool. Just hand them a good old database or bibliography (a secret weapon that only librarians know how to use). The librarian can find anything anywhere. They know everything, and if they don't they will find out in seconds! We know where you live and we know what you read!
All real Librarians have cats, some deviant Librarians also have dogs. Librarians who lack cats and or corrective lenses should not be trusted as they are abnormal to the species. In modern times some librarians develop allergies to dust and pets and children and are condemned to solitude. They have almost no social life, if not any at all.
Playing WOW and doing other things that are completely unproductive instead of helping people. Librarians usually practice their hobbies during working hours. When you think they have their noses deep down some important looking database, they actually editing Uncyclopedia or writing to their imaginary friends on Facebook. Do not disturb the librarian while she is doing unimportant things. Look it up!
All librarian attire is loose, layered and comfortable. Librarian clothes must be slept in for several days prior to wearing outside of the home. Cat fur is always present on pant cuffs and typically on sleeves as well. Elbow patches, bow ties and pipes are optional for men as well as women, though it should be noted that pipes are never smoked in the presence of books as the tobacco may damage them. It is also not unusual to find the color worn away from one knee of a librarian's pants, created by frequent kneeling to shelve items on the lower shelves.
Book love[edit]
In a recent scientific study Librarians were reported to love books. Book love is described in the DSM-IV under Delirium, Dementia, and Amnestic and Other Cognitive Disorders as:
- A. The presence of book love as manifested by motoric immobility, excessive motor activity (that is apparently purposeless and not influenced by external stimuli), extreme negativism or mutism, peculiarities of voluntary movement, or echolalia or echopraxia.
- B. There is evidence from the history, physical examination, or laboratory findings that the disturbance is the direct physiological consequence of reading.
- C. The disturbance is not better accounted for by another mental disorder (e.g., a Manic Episode).
- D. The disturbance does not occur exclusively during the course of a Delirium.
Average people like only books and should not be trusted with them for more than 21 consecutive days without imposing a fine (ten cents per day, not to exceed replacement cost).
Frequently manifest behaviour[edit]
The common vengeful Librarian lives to destroy all graphic and espionage novels in the genocidal quest for textual purity, excused as "the natural process of literary cleansing". They attend weekend rallies supporting the introduction of the death penalty for overdue books and drive underpowered cars emblazoned with the slogan "kraft durch freude" whose engines strain under the weight of crates of such stimulating tomes as Beginners' Golfing Swings 2 and Arizona on a Skidoo and a Prayer.
How to vanquish a librarian[edit]
- TIP!: Vanquishing Librarians is most effective in non-book environments.
Whatever you do, do NOT point anything, especially important appendages, at a Librarian. Librarians can be unpredictable and dangerous.
Instead, repeat the following incantation three times: "Your field is obsolete and you will be replaced with improved content and slicker GUI interfacia from Google." This should be sufficient to destroy the non-technical librarian.
A geekier librarian may be resistant to this incantation and should simply be bludgeoned with the first volume of the OED or a similarly large reference book.
- Librarians are the upper-class Americans of knowledge; they comprise a negligible percentage of the population, yet possess 90% of resources. Well, knowledge, anyway. Stacking shelves with clinical precision and knowing the Turkish word for badminton is their vocation, but for many librarians, this alone does not satisfy their inherent thirst for power.
- A widely publicized gesture in which a female librarian unfastens her hair and shakes it loose is an ancient code used among male and female Librarians to signal each other. Though the action was long believed to be a mating ritual it was later discovered to be a call to an unrelated ritual in which the male implants seeds of doubt, which the female then destroys by conducting further research.
- Librarians are usually female, and any male librarians should be captured for interrogation. They are often Estonian spies.


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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Giambrone: "AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN & NATIONAL MILITARY PARK"
Civil War campaign and battle guide studies come in all forms and Jeff Giambrone's An Illustrated Guide to the Vicksburg Campaign & National Military Park is not a touring aid akin to the old U.S. Army War College books or the more recent This Hallowed Ground series published by University of Nebraska Press. Giambrone's well photographed work is part historical narrative part site catalog, the latter including points of interest such as forts, batteries, houses, public buildings, grave sites, state monuments, unit monuments, and battlefield sculpture.
The first third of the guide encompasses the history of Vicksburg, from first settlement through Civil War and Reconstruction. The town's regional maritime importance and traditions are strongly presented, and the chapter also includes short pieces on the ships that plied their trade to and from Vicksburg. The section dealing with the Civil War years in and around Vicksburg covers the 1862 and 1863 campaigns broadly, as well as listing, describing, and photographing the major federal battery positions and the Confederate fort sites currently under park stewardship. A chapter also deals with the post-siege Union occupation and Reconstruction years.
The heart of the book and its most impressive feature is its extensive registry of antebellum buildings and houses, cemeteries, battlefield monuments, and sculpture. A typical listing from the historic homes guide is composed of a black and white photograph, physical address, date of construction, and a bullet point history of the building and its owners. Churches, cemeteries, and prominent public buildings in the city are given similar treatment. Numerous Confederate and Union state monuments are present on the battlefield (one dedicated as recently as the late 1990s) and Giambrone has cataloged those as well, providing additional information such as location, cost, artist responsible, art medium, and dedication date. A selection of regimental and battery monuments is also included. The book's largest compilation is its register of Confederate and Union officer memorials in the form of bust and relief sculptures. In addition to monument details, the author also provides short biographical summaries for each subject.
In terms of a wish list, there could have been far more maps. Only a simple campaign drawing and a reproduction of the NPS park brochure map are included. Also, GPS coordinates are increasingly important in modern guides of this type, but are absent here. An index would have been helpful, too. These flaws aside, An Illustrated Guide to the Vicksburg Campaign & National Military Park is a well presented work that includes much visitor information that cannot be found in any other publication. Those with an interest in the park's monuments and artwork will find Giambrone's book especially useful.
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- Joel ManuelMarch 24, 2011 at 8:47 AM
I believe there was one other book of this nature (Vicksburg Battlefield Monuments: A Photographic Record, 1984), but it focused solely on the state memorials. Should be available through interlibrary loan.
I don't like a lack of maps either, but I will get this book and I'm guessing that its price will relegate it to the enthusiast who has some working knowledge of the battlefield already. I once emailed the fellow from Trailhead Graphics to see if he was working on a Vicksburg map and he said he was; but this was well over a year ago and I don't know what stage that project is at.
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Jun 23, 2002 - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Author(s): Laurel Walker
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Reading is fundamental relief effort in Ghana
By LAUREL WALKER of the Journal Sentinel staff
Sunday, June 23, 2002
As Jane Mitchell tells it, she and her dear friend, Gail Rennie, were "two naive but well-meaning women" intent upon sending a few books to an impoverished Third World country.
A few?
How about 5,000 or so books fit for school-aged children -- enough donated to give a small English-speaking village in the rain forest of Ghana its very first library, the only one within 30 miles.
So many books, in fact, that as their project snowballed, it began to scare them. They knew how costly the books would be to ship.
But let's not get ahead of ourselves.
The story really starts with Kim Rennie, 33-year-old daughter of Gail and Lawson Rennie of Brookfield. The 1987 graduate of Waukesha South High School went on to earn a business degree and settle into a successful career in Atlanta before finding new fulfillment in humanitarian causes.
She joined the Peace Corps and, in September 2000, landed in Bunso, Ghana, a West African village of 3,000 where her job has been to help the community develop an arboretum targeted at tourism.
Help on the way
On Kim Rennie's only visit home, just last Christmas, Jane Mitchell of Brookfield joined her for lunch.
"She was just absolutely so inspiring," said Mitchell, who found herself wondering "how could an affluent American housewife help such a tireless Peace Corps worker?"
"She just loves her little village, and Bunso has so many needs."
Kim Rennie had an idea. Books. There simply are none in the Bunso schools.
Gail Rennie knows this first hand. At the urging of her daughter, Gail spent five weeks in Bunso working side-by-side with her daughter early this spring.
As curious villagers who'd never painted in their lives crowded closer, mother and daughter painted a 7-by-14-foot map of the world on the side of the village's Junior Secondary School for seventh- through ninth-graders. Gail Rennie turned it into a geography lesson, one of several she presented to students.
"While we were painting I would bring classes to the map and I taught them about continents, oceans, indigenous people, size, how long it took me to get there," she said.
"I gave them a concept of the world because up to that point, their world had been the village of Bunso. Most had not been outside the village."
The school itself is made of cement block walls, thatched roof, hand-made desks and a single chalkboard. Not every student can afford a notebook or pencils, and there are no books.
Books for Bunso
Books. That's what Bunso needed.
Jane Mitchell wasted no time. She began organizing small fund- raising and book-donating events among her friends. She called each "Lunch for a Library" and asked Kim Rennie to speak at the first one, before she returned to Ghana. Mitchell then showed her videotaped remarks and asked Gail Rennie to take over questions and answers.
One day Mitchell found herself with 1,500 books in her living room, prompting husband Bob to say, "Jane, this time you've taken on more than you can chew."
But she -- and Rennie -- kept chewing. The two women moved the books to Rennie's church, St. John's Lutheran on Davidson Road, where the collection kept growing. Volunteers have been pitching in to get the books organized for shipping.
"I'd just call my friends and say, 'I need help,'" said Rennie. Mitchell relied on her e-mail string for getting the call for help out.
Two fortuitous events are bringing the project closer to reality.
An anonymous benefactor connected to the shipping business offered to donate the shipping -- a cost that could reach $8,000 to $10,000, the women figure. And back in Ghana, the Bunso village chief offered to provide a building for the library. Kim Rennie is overseeing the renovation, including installation of doors, windows and shelves paid for with money raised by Mitchell.
The women plan to have the books shipped by month's end. The library needs to be finished by October, when Kim Rennie's stint in Ghana is over.
Gail Rennie, like any mother, was always positive and encouraging about her daughter's dream of a library for Bunso. That's the way a mother's heart is. In her head, though, she admitted thinking that it was an impossible dream.
Yet Kim Rennie has shown through other volunteer projects -- in addition to her Peace Corps job -- that no task is too daunting. She's started a girls club to help improve the self confidence of girls often made to feel inferior. She volunteers at an orphanage where she offers recreation programs. She has organized HIV and AIDS education seminars and support groups for children and adults. She's seeking a grant to build a second community latrine, where only one exists now and where homes have dirt floors, no electricity and no water.
Above all, she inspired two "naive but well-meaning" Brookfield women to send "a few" books to Bunso.
In a letter home earlier this month, Kim Rennie borrowed a passage from a book she was reading to pay tribute to the effort of her mother, her friend, Jane, and others who have pitched in since.
One person doesn't have to move a mountain, she wrote. You just have to pick up a shovel and start digging. The dirt you move might help just one person. Or better yet, it might inspire others to pick up a spade and start shoveling, too.
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If nothing has gone right, let's do some troubleshooting. Use your camera and see if you still have pictures on it. If you do, skip the rest of this paragraph. If you don't, they should be someplace, check again. If not, and you can not find them, go take some more. Turn your camera off and plug it in and boot up again.
Check to see if the mount point unlinked by mv,/mnt/camera is there. If it's gone create it again. Sometimes the mount point disappears in modified mode. Also, I have notice on my system that sometimes the SCSI device in /dev (sda1) gets removed. Check that also and replace if needed.
Clean up all the extra directories you got from the script you ran that produced the errors and run your new script with the directories and see if it works. To make it easier to clean up all the directories and files you may have to su - if you're in user mode. Be sure to change back when you get through. See Appendix C at the end of this document.
[bash]$ dmesg |
and you should see this somewhere:
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x54c/0x10) is not claimed by any active driver. (The 0x54c/0x10 will be different for different vendors.) |
If you see this, your USB mass storage device in recognized.
Now turn your camera on and run the script file (the modified one) and you should see something like this when you run dmesg again:
[bash]$ dmesg SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: Sony Model: Sony DSC Rev: 3.22 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured USB Mass Storage device found at 2 USB Mass Storage support registered. Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 126848 512-byte hdwr sectors (65 MB) sda: Write Protect is off /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1628 |
Now run this command and read Appendix B.
[bash]$ lsmod |
If the information from running lsmod appears as in Appendix B,and your dmesg shows the information listed above, and there are no pictures, I don't know what is wrong. Unfortunately, the only thing I know to do is go thru the whole process again. Only this time use the re-direction option >filename to capture the results. Post this to one of these 2 newsgroups:
telling what you've done and ask for help. Include everything you can think of, the more information the better, and e-mail me at the same time. My address is: email@example.com.


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Here's a nice collection of line-following robots (translated). They're fast and they stay on track even through sharp turns. They center around a Baby Orangutan board which features an ATmega328 microcontroller and two motor driver channels. These drive the geared motors and use optical sensors to track a dark line on a light surface. There's plenty of build and testing information (translated) if you're interested in the gory details. Or just jump past the break to see the red on doing its thing.
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Chris Rea is an artist that has surely more than a few things in common with Mark Knopfler – playing a red Fender Stratocaster is one of them. Chris plays a lot of slide guitar, so his Strat is normally tuned to open E, and his sound is different for this reason but often his clean Strat sounds are still similar to some early Dire Straits stuff.
I found this video on youtube, originally it was included on a VHS video tape with the Fender Chris Rea signature Stratocaster that was available in the late 90ies.
Chris explains how he gets his signature sound on his fiesta red 1963 Strat, which he calls 'Pinky'. He demonstrates e.g. the effect of a compressor pedal on a clean sound (at about 5:15), an effect that is helpful for Knopfler sounds as well (just listen to e.g. 'In the Gallery' or 'Lady Writer').
Also notice that his tremolo is blocked with a piece of wood (at 1:55). This was not the case on Mark's Strat I think, as he occasionally presses down his tremolo on stage (e.g. in the outro of 'News'), but it seems that Mark also had no floating tremolo but had it decked (using five tremolo strings so that the bridge is pressed down on the body).
There is another detail that I found interesting: at about 17:10 Chris demonstrates how he removes some harshness of a Strat by rolling the volume pot down to about '8'. I recommend to try this for the Knopfler sound, too. Rolling back the pot a bit reduces the strength of the so-called resonance peak of he pickup (more on this in this blog post), resulting in a sweeter, less harsh sound. You can then turn up the treble control of your amp a bit tomake the sound brighter again, this really sounds different from fully turned up with less treble on the amp, worth trying out. The effect is a bit similar to using that old Morley volume pedal that Mark had in the 70ies as this also reduces the pickup resonance peak.


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Angels & Demons Lyrics
What do you see when you're in the dark and the demons come?
I see you. I see you standing over the grave of another dead President
[Hook: Bazaar Royale]
I see angels above me
Demons below me
Fighting over heaven, heaven, heaven
It's real
[Verse 1: stic.man]
America's nightmare; young, black, and just don't give a fuck
Run up in the courtroom and wet 'em up
Got nothin' to lose but my handcuffs
Every man must choose to lay down or stand up
It's war time, everything is fair, no fear
When they say the homie murdered the judge, I don't care
Fuck 'em, he deserved it, long as the homie get away
And don't get caught for the crime, I encourage it
We rootin' for the vellein of black
Pourin' out Absolut, salute, niggas is shootin' back
In self-defense we bang the pistol like
Larry Davis or Brian Nichols
Every pig, every public official, the boomerang
Is coming back to get you, you reap what you sow
The system you created created a monster
And now you scared cause it's coming back to haunt you
[Hook x2]
[Verse 2: M-1]
Since we gonna take the blame, I'mma rep my name to get my aim right
Let's have an overthrow and after party in the same night
Same height as Huey, same muscle build as Malcolm
With the same circumstances in the hood, you know the outcome
And read it in the news about your sergeant and your captain
Don't take this as a warning, just another nigga rappin'
Fuck the way we organizing, fuck the training and the grapplin'
And fuck them Uncle Toms who call police because we smack them
And fuck you sympathizers with your middle class reactions
Cause we bangin' on the system, G'd up, fuck the factions
And if you didn't know, the G was for George Jackson
And long live his warrior spirit packin' the Magnum
Watching over the soldiers, knowin' niggas be blackin'
When we really need to be disciplined in our ways and actions
When we get some freedom you niggas can start braggin'
Till then, inside the blood of my eye, you see the dragon
[Hook x2]
[Verse 3: Immortal Technique]
I'm like the birth of baby Mohammed, the movement I started
Can spar with the hardest, the martyr regarded as Spartacus-hearted
It doesn't matter whose missiles can shoot the farthest
When you're a target in an Afghan Teutoberg Forest
Close quarters combat over corrupted elections
Bilderberg is like cancer, it grows an infection
Nepotism is the gold and the conductor's connection
And ignorance is the prison that the people are kept in
The military ain't there for the people's protection
They're just there to protect an investment
That's why people get arrested, electrocuted, molested
Connected streets are infested with those tired of protestin'
Traumatized children grow to guerilla garrisons
9/11 generations pale in comparison
And you will learn a lesson repeated through history
That no matter what you think, occupation is not victory
[Outro: Immortal Technique]
Somalia, Kashmir
Nigeria, Palestine
Iraq, bring it back
[Hook x2]


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Flu season off to latest start in decades
(AP) -- Health officials say the flu season is finally here - the slowest start in nearly 25 years.
Until this month, there weren't enough flu cases in the U.S. to signal the start of the season. This is the latest start to a flu season since the winter of 1987-1988.
Flu season usually starts in December or January. Often, it's half over by late February. CDC officials don't know why this season was slow but it could be a combination of factors.
On Friday, CDC officials said one state - California - has had widespread cases for the last two weeks, and Missouri has seen a spike in reports of flu-like illness.
So far the flu vaccine seems well-matched to the strains making people sick. Last flu season was considered average.
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LeBron playing at perhaps highest level yet
MIAMI — After a recent Miami Heat practice in Washington, Ray Allen told the coaching staff he was skipping the bus ride and running back to the hotel.
LeBron James' ears perked up.
With that, the three-time NBA MVP went looking for his running shoes.
"LeBron said, `If you're going to do that, I'm going to do that too. I'm not going to be outdone by somebody else. I'm going to run,'" Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "So he gets very competitive with things like that. If other people are working on their game, he takes notice."
That approach must be working. James' game – already considered among the best in the NBA – might be better than ever right now.
He's made 37 of his last 47 shots over his last 111 minutes, a torrid 79-percent clip. For the season, he's shooting a career-best 56 percent so far, easily on pace for the sixth straight season of improvement in that department. His 3-point shooting, at 42 percent this season, is much improved. He's shooting 70 percent inside the paint.
"I want to continue to push the button, continue to get better, maximize my potential and not waste an opportunity," James said.
The numbers go on and on. He's averaging 26.9 points this season. According to STATS LLC, only five players in NBA history have averaged that many points while shooting at least 56 percent over a full season. Maybe that's why Heat guard Dwyane Wade marvels when talking about James these days, saying "every year, it seems like he does the amazing."
"Numbers don't lie," James said.
At least, they don't in this case. After winning his third MVP award, second Olympic gold medal and first NBA championship, James said he wanted to get even better.
"It's kind of like, where is the bar for this guy? Does he have a bar?" Wade said. "And I'm glad that he's doing all this while he's in a Miami Heat uniform."
Miami continues its homestand on Sunday, playing host to Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers, who have won seven of their last nine games.
While he's been sensational all season – sweeping the Eastern Conference player of the month awards so far, almost certainly moving to the front of the class in the MVP balloting once again and once again averaging more combined points, assists and rebounds (42.0) than anyone else in the league – James has been particularly hot of late.
Starting in the fourth quarter of Miami's game last weekend at Toronto, James has generated 102 points on 47 shots. How off-the-charts effective is that? Remember, if he went 47-for-47 on 2-pointers alone and did nothing else, that would only add up to 94 points.
His "bad" game in the past week was an 11-for-18 showing against Houston. He shot 13 for 14 against Charlotte on Monday, the lone miss coming on a layup attempt where he appeared to get fouled. Against the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night, he shot 9 for 11 – and probably had a case that one of the two misses he was charged with really wasn't a shot attempt at all.
Nonetheless, it all adds up to James missing 10 shots in the last 12-1/2 quarters of Heat basketball. Across the NBA, 14 different players missed at least 10 shots on Friday night alone.
"I mean, come on. We try to come up with new superlatives every single game," Spoelstra said. "He's the best player in the game and he's continuing to reinvent himself. This guy isn't trying to shy away from work ethic or preparation. He's getting after it. Our film sessions, he treats them like he's a coach. He sees something, he'll point it out to the guys. He's continuing to improve. And quite frankly, we need it."
James said he's done nothing out of the ordinary to raise his shooting numbers.
Hard work, he said, has been the difference. The Heat added one of the game's all-time elite shooters in Allen last summer, and James is typically involved in some sort of shooting session with the NBA's career 3-point leader after every practice. He hits the practice court to take game-situation jumpers when his legs are fresh. He does it again when his legs are tired.
His confidence might be higher than his shooting percentage. And it's showing.
"When I'm able to go out there on the floor, I just try to make things happen," James said. "But I want to continue to get better. I'm not satisfied and I work on my game each and every day, trying to figure out ways I can get better, both offensively and defensively, from the interior to the exterior, whatever the case may be."


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Additional information from mouse insertional mutagenesis experiments support UBE2R2 as a cancer driver gene.
Genomic regions are listed below where clusters of insertional events (Common Insertion Sites, CIS) have driven the progression of cancer in mouse models (Ranzani et al; 2013).
Data Source: CCGD (Candidate Cancer Gene Database)
Insertional Cluster (CIS)
If the frequency of transposon insertions in a given genomic region is higher than expected by chance, the region is called a CIS and the genes within or near this region are identified as candidate cancer genes.
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In the Jan. 8, 2010 issue of Entertainment Weekly, Lynette Ryce takes a look at the state of the daytime soap industry. Here's an excerpt:
"It's been a stagnant business for a long time," admits ABC head of daytime Brian Frons. "Just like in any business, the strong will survive and the weak will fall away."
"Daytime soaps may be nearing their end," predicts Dr. Paul Levinson, a TV expert and professor at Fordham University. "The lifestyles of the 21st century do not cater to sitting down every day at the same time to watch a soap." Adds Shari Anne Brill, director of strategic audience analysis at media-buying firm Carat: "Because the audiences for soaps are getting older and less desirable to advertisers, it is not longer cost effective for networks to produce them...when there are cheaper alternatives, like turning the time back to the affiliates."
Veterans like THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL exec producer Bradley Bell prefers rich stories and smaller budgets to stunt casting. "We have to go back and produce these shows on a shoestring budget, which is how they began," says Bell, whose soap has a safety net of selling well overseas. NBC co-chairman Marc Graboff agrees. "When you force budget cuts, you force creative decisions that are good for the show." But even he's tongue-tied when it comes to predicting the long-term health of the genre - especially since soap ratings have been in decline since the early '90s. "It's hard to say how long it will stay," he admits. "Just when you write a genre off, it can come back." True - if soaps have shown us anything, it's that anyone can return from the dead.


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The World Bank considers it necessary to apply new approaches to improve the energy efficiency of buildings in Azerbaijan. A seminar on the preliminary results of the energy efficiency market assessment was held in Baku yesterday with the participation of representatives of the Government of Azerbaijan, the energy and utilities sector, international financial and donor organizations.
Deputy Special Envoy of the US President for Climate Issues Sue Biniaz arrived in Azerbaijan yesterday, the United States Embassy in Baku reported.
According to the Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security, in 2023 Azerbaijan supplied Italy with about 11.3 million tons of oil, by 25% more than in 2022.
In 2023, the countries of the European Union (EU) increased exports of petroleum products to Azerbaijan by 73.8% compared to 2022, to 24.4 thousand tons.